Thursday, October 3, 2013

Night 3 of the Attack of the 31 Nights of Halloween

Welcome to night 3 of the 3rd annual Attack of the 31 Nights of Halloween. Make sure to stop by our Giveaway Post and enter to win a $400+ Prize Pack full of frightfully good treats from 24 spooktacular shops! Tonight we have the next movie from the Halloween Movie Marathon. Follow along for an extra 10 entries in the giveaway and play the Guess The Movie game for even more. We also have the next clue in the Murder Mystery Scavenger Hunt. Gather clues for daily entries and a surprise at the end of the giveaway. But that's not all! Keep reading to find the next feature on one of our participating shops. Visit us each day during October so you do not miss any of the fun.

Purchase any item(s) from Laughing Vixen Lounge through October 31st and get 10% off your order. Use code OTOBER10 at checkout.

Scares That Care
In addition to having lots of fun we want to try and do a little good too Many of our shops have chosen a charity to fund raise for. A certain percentage or dollar amount of each sale made through the participating shops, during the giveaway, will be donated to the charity of their choice. You will find each shops details on the main Giveaway Post and on their shop feature.

Murder Mystery Scavenger Hunt - Night 3
Our scavenger hunt will work like the game Clue this year. Every week you will be looking for clues to a different part of the mystery ~ Settings, Suspects, Rooms, Weapons and Escapes. They will be hidden within an item listing inside one of our participating shops. On each daily post you will be given a hint as to where the main clue is hiding. Once you find the clue go to the main Giveaway Post and find that night's entry on the Rafflecopter widget. You must leave the clue through the Rafflecopter! Do not post the clue anywhere on the blog. If you do it will be deleted and will not count. If you have any questions just ask.

Make sure to keep a list of all the clues as you collect them. On the last day of the giveaway you will be able to submit your guess of how the murder happened. Anyone who actually guesses correctly will win a Surprise Goodie Bag from Laughing Vixen Lounge. These goodie bags are made to suit your taste and usually end up being at least a $50 value! You can start the scavenger hunt game at anytime during the giveaway and go back to find past clues. Clues will stay posted through the entire giveaway.

Night 3
A murder has been committed!
This week you will be collecting clues to the setting of the crime.

Why did you choose to make/sell what you do?
"I wanted to sell
products that would make women look and feel great without any skin
irritants, unhealthy ingredients or animal byproducts. I like to think
that I sell bottled self-esteem and guilt free cosmetics."

What inspires the designs/creations you make?
"My creations are inspired by movies, TV shows, video games, music and even my emotions. After recently suffering a great hardship I channeled my sadness into the creation of a gorgeous new nail polish collection."

What new designs/creations would you like to add to your shop in the future?
"I'm always creating new nail polish colors my latest being the Drama Queen collection. And my fans can expect even more new colors soon. I even have some new eye shadows coming out soon."

Since it's Halloween I asked the shops to share their favorite spooky movies.
"My favorite scary movie is The Conjuring. I just saw this one in theaters and I loved it! One reason I loved it, and this is kind of weird, but I liked how sweet the families were in this movie. Not super dysfunctional like they often are in horror films."

Attack of the 31 Nights of Halloween Movie Marathon.
Follow along with us for a month full of classic and modern spooky movies. For something a little different this year we have decided to do themed weeks. Week 1 ~ Zombies, Week 2 ~ Werewolves and Vampires, Week 3 ~ Stephen King, Week 4 ~ Classic Double Features and Week 5 ~ Lounge Favorites.

On each daily post there will be a review of the next movie in our movie marathon. Leave a comment on each post with your opinion of that movie. On the last day of the giveaway you will find the Magic Phrase you will use to unlock the entry on the main Giveaway Post worth 10 entries. You must comment on each movie post to qualify.

Guess The Movie Game
This year we decided not to post the movie list in full so we can play a fun game instead. Each daily post will have a clue to the next night's movie. Leave your guess on the Rafflecopter widget, on the main Giveaway Post, for 1 entry in the giveaway. Please do not post guesses anywhere else on the blog or they will be deleted and not count.

**Guesses must be posted the same day as their clue to receive the entry** Rafflecopter runs on Eastern Standard Time. You can only post 1 guess per 24 hour period. So if you miss a day you can not make it up.

Tonight's Clue ~ Zombies vs Punk Rockers

Week 1 ~ Zombies

Night 3 - 28 Days Later

Tagline - The Days Are Numbered
Be Thankful For Everything, For Soon There Will Be Nothing...

Directed by Danny Boyle (Shallow Grave, Trainspotting and A Life Less
Ordinary) and released on June 27, 2003 by Twentieth Century Fox (Rated R). A monkey is
set free from a lab. Bad move. The monkey sets off a chain reaction of a very
nasty virus. 28 days later Jim (Cillian Murphy) wakes up in a hospital from a
head injury having no idea what has happened around him. We follow Jim and a few
other survivors on their journey through England and it's population of
Zombie-like infected. Is there hope for the survivors? Is the whole world gone?
Are there others left besides them?

When I decided to go see this movie in the theater I figured it would just
be another post apocalyptic zombie movie. I was wrong. This movie was brilliant
and truly frightening. Coming out in the post 911 world with everyone fearing
everything this movie worked great. I mean, with chemical warfare and such, this
movie didn't seem all that far fetched. So instead of another tired horror film
I found myself sitting in the dark glued to the screen and leaving a bit freaked
out. If you haven't seen this you should give it a try. Be warned it is a wee
bit on the disgusting side.

The scene with Jim walking around London with no other people and no sound
is a very eerie and impressive sight.

Yes, technically this is not a Zombie movie because they are infected people not the dead risen. But hey, it plays like a Zombie movie so I let it qualify.

Take a look at the original trailer.

Some trivia about the movie.

1. The decision to film on DV (using Canon XL1 cameras) was both an
aesthetic and a logistic choice. On the aesthetic side of things, Danny Boyle
felt that the harshness of the DV imagery suited the post-apocalyptic urban
landscape and the grittiness of the film in general. In the production notes of
the movie, Boyle points out that "the general idea was to try and shoot as
though we were survivors too," and as such, a pristine 35mm widescreen image
would have been antithetical to this notion. In terms of logistics, producer
Andrew MacDonald claims that it would have been impossible to shoot the film on
anything other than DV, especially some of the exterior scenes in London. As
MacDonald points out in the production notes, "The police and the local
authorities were quite happy to assist us because we could set up scenes so
quickly. We could literally be ready to shoot with a six-camera set-up within
minutes - something we would not realistically have been able to do if shooting
under the restrictions of 35mm which takes a good deal more time to set up a
single shot."

2. Scriptwriter Alex Garland acknowledges several sources as inspiration
for his screenplay, notably John Wyndham's The Day of the Triffids (1962),
George A. Romero's "Dead" trilogy (Night, Dawn and Day) and The Omega Man
(1971). Direct homages include Jim waking up in the hospital from The Day of the
Triffids (1962), the chained infected being studied from Day of the Dead (1985),
and the scene in the grocery store (people in the mall from Dawn of the Dead
(1978)), the stop for supplies that saw a run-in with infected children (also
Dawn of the Dead (1978)), and the military holing up against the plague with
outsiders partially to deliberately include females (also Day of the
Dead).

3. The symbol used for this film is the international symbol for
blood-borne bio hazard.

4. The primary idea behind Rage was that every generation gets the zombies
it deserves, and Alex Garland and Danny Boyle felt that the notion of the living
dead wanting to eat peoples' brains was outdated. One of the original impetuses
behind zombie movies was a fear of nuclear power and the possible ramifications
it might have on humanity. As such, Garland and Boyle looked at what this
generation is afraid of, and concluded that one of the biggest fears in modern
society is a fear of diseases, a fear of a viral apocalypse, such as Ebola or
Marburg. Indeed, Garland and Boyle were specifically inspired by such incidents
as the recent anthrax and bio terrorism scares in London as well as the recent
spread of mad cow disease and foot-and-mouth disease in the UK. As such, they
decided to base their zombies on this fear of viruses.

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I haven't seen this one in a long time but I remember really loving it.I like the way it was shot.Felt gritty and realistic.I remember having nightmares for awhile after watching it.That's always a sign of a great movie!